ESG-Critical Shale CEO Feels An Ethical Duty To Speak Out

ESG-Critical Shale CEO Feels An Ethical Duty To Speak Out

A drill rig at a CNX Resources Corp. drilling site in Morris Township, Pennsylvania, U. S., on ... [+] Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. Photographer: Justin Merriman/Bloomberg Two years ago, Nick Deluliis, CEO of CNX Resources, had no social media accounts – "I had no idea what to do with social media," he told me with a laugh during a recent interview. Today, he is all over Twitter and other social media platforms, advocating for his company and his industry. He has his own podcast. He has authored a book that is coming out soon. It is the complete opposite approach you see taken by most CEOs in the energy business. I asked him why he has chosen to become such a vocal advocate, given that it will inevitably make him a target to so many who oppose fossil fuels in any form. "I feel there's an ethical duty, a leadership responsibility, there's a social purpose of a business to accurately, rationally advocate for what you do on behalf of society and why what you do is not in the past, it's not a bridge that's going to go away; it's the present and it's the future. Particularly when mistruths are